A modern man’s guide to contemporary slang

In terms of a digitised age of microblogging, fast-paced trends and the terrifying ubiquity of bizarre slang words, Charlie Brooker's Nathan Barley has matured from absurdist parody to terrifying parable. But as the series' protagonist, Dan Ashcroft, proved, resisting fluency in the internet's language will only ever make you less relevant.

Which is exactly why we compiled this totally f****** Mexico guide to contemporary digital slang. Keep it futile, gentlemen. And remember, all of these are completely unacceptable to say out loud.

Youthquake:noun

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Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year 2017 was originally coined by Diana Vreeland, American Vogue editor of the Sixties, to refer to the era's ever-growing youth culture. It's not actually been uttered from anyone's lips since then, but is apparently due for a resurgence going into #2K18.

"Generation Z and millennials are so woke, they're starting a youthquake."